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1. Thomas Paine

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   Following the American victory, Paine returned to Europe, becoming deeply involved in the political upheaval surrounding the French Revolution. He traveled to Paris and was elected as a deputy to the National Convention in 1792.
   His major philosophical work from this period was Rights of Man (1791–1792), written as a defense of the French Revolution against the criticisms leveled by Edmund Burke in his Reflections on the Revolution in France. Paine argued for inherent, universal human rights derived from nature, rather than tradition…